GNU gdbm for MPE/iX

This port is a prototype; it is totally unsupported but it seems to work (at least for me ;)

When trying to use the GNU gdbm package that is part of my earlier port of ht://Dig to MPE/iX, I noticed that it did not work properly when used inside my in-progress port of OpenLDAP to MPE/iX. So I decided to pick up a fresh and standalone version at one of the www.gnu.org mirror sites to see if it can be ported more thoroughly.

Here is a copy of the GNU gdbm distribution that I picked from one of the GNU mirrors sites...

Using the texi2html translator I extracted the following docs from the above package...

Porting GNU gdbm to MPE/iX was fairly easy as it basically uses GNU gcc compiler, which is available on MPE/iX for quite a long time now, thanks to Mark Klein's port. Using my recent prototype of GNU autoconf for MPE/iX it wasn't even neccessary to manually adjust the configure script as advised in Mark Bixby's MPE/iX Porting Guide. Here are the diffs...

Here is a package of the files that have been added to allow GNU gdbmbuild on MPE/iX...

And here you can see how to run your own build with above components...

If you do not want to run your own build, you may download the resulting binaries here...

As always, feedback welcome and best-effort help available (but I'm a gdbm beginner).

Lars Appel, December 1998 (lappel@grc.hp.com)